Rent Party = a success!

Thanks to all who came to celebrate six months of Word Up. That means six months of an organization that has been built, populated, grown, improved, embraced by members of y/our community. Six months of a literature and literacy resource in Washington Heights. Six months of a place that has distributed thousands of books into our neighborhood, and that has hosted several hundred performances. Six months of an arts joint that is collectively run, 7 days a week, by 60+ volunteers from Uptown, and from all races, nationalities, and ages (our youngest regular volunteers are 12 years old!). Six months of doing our best to look out for each other, of making sure we don’t fall or get too rained on or too tired or hungry or burnt out—because we all want a little Word Up in our lives for another six months, six years, six decades still.